Sketchbooks

Today we had a briefing for the first task in the visual skills module. We were given a list of themes and told to pick one, research it through the library and any other methods we chose, and then fill 6 pages in our sketchbooks in response to the theme. I picked the theme of American Wrestlers as this was something I spent a lot of my childhood watching and playing with my brother, and something that still fascinates me. I started to just sketch out some basic character pages, getting really hooked on drawing as many different angry wrestler faces as I could think of. For today I stuck to working with simple materials, starting with fine-liner and marker pens, and then experimenting with crayon later. Whilst I was working on the third page at home, I started working with a bit of collage which is an old favourite of mine. This was my favourite outcome, the image has a lot of depth and texture and the bright colours really bring the character to life.